How Google Tests Software

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Addison-Wesley Professional, 2012 - 281 pages

2012 Jolt Award finalist!

Pioneering the Future of Software Test

Do you need to get it right, too? Then, learn from Google. Legendary testing expert James Whittaker, until recently a Google testing leader, and two top Google experts reveal exactly how Google tests software, offering brand-new best practices you can use even if you're not quite Google's size...yet!

Breakthrough Techniques You Can Actually Use

Discover 100% practical, amazingly scalable techniques for analyzing risk and planning tests...thinking like real users...implementing exploratory, black box, white box, and acceptance testing...getting usable feedback...tracking issues...choosing and creating tools...testing "Docs & Mocks," interfaces, classes, modules, libraries, binaries, services, and infrastructure...reviewing code and refactoring...using test hooks, presubmit scripts, queues, continuous builds, and more. With these techniques, you can transform testing from a bottleneck into an accelerator-and make your whole organization more productive!

 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Google Software Testing
1
Chapter 2 The Software Engineer in Test
15
Chapter 3 The Test Engineer
75
Chapter 4 The Test Engineering Manager
187
Chapter 5 Improving How Google Tests Software
229
Chrome OS Test Plan
237
Test Tours for Chrome
247
Blog Posts on Tools and Code
253
Index
265
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